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GeoSmart SIGNED

Technologies for geothermal to enhance competitiveness in smart and flexible operation

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Project "GeoSmart" data sheet

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Coordinator
TWI LIMITED 

Organization address
address: GRANTA PARK GREAT ABINGTON
city: CAMBRIDGE
postcode: CB21 6AL
website: www.twi.co.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 19˙727˙611 €
 EC max contribution 17˙363˙898 € (88%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.3.3.2. (Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply)
 Code Call H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage
 Funding Scheme IA
 Starting year 2019
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2019-06-01   to  2023-05-31

 Partnership

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TWI LIMITED UK (CAMBRIDGE) coordinator 3˙819˙650.00
2    VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V. BE (MOL) participant 5˙538˙375.00
3    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES FR (PARIS 15) participant 1˙745˙358.00
4    ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NV BE (Wilrijk) participant 1˙097˙250.00
5    BERTIN TECHNOLOGIES SAS FR (MONTIGNY LE BRETONNEUX) participant 741˙228.00
6    HASKOLI ISLANDS IS (REYKJAVIK) participant 691˙681.00
7    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. DE (MUNCHEN) participant 648˙365.00
8    ZORLU ENERJI ELEKTRIK URETIM AS TR (ISTANBUL) participant 602˙218.00
9    TECHNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS LTD UK (MANCHESTER) participant 441˙000.00
10    SPIKE RENEWABLES SRL IT (FIRENZE) participant 427˙000.00
11    FLOWPHYS AS NO (DRAMMEN) participant 311˙062.00
12    EUROPEAN GEOTHERMAL ENERGY COUNCIL BE (BRUXELLES) participant 261˙312.00
13    P.VALD EHF IS (REYKJAVIK) participant 202˙256.00
14    MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY TR (ANKARA) participant 193˙333.00
15    NYSKOPUNARMIDSTOD ISLANDS IS (REYKJAVIK) participant 187˙575.00
16    ORKUVEITA REYKJAVIKUR SF IS (REYKJAVIK) participant 120˙750.00
17    GEROSION EHF IS (REYKJAVIK) participant 120˙356.00
18    KADIR HAS UNIVERSITESI TR (ISTANBUL) participant 109˙375.00
19    CONSORZIO PER LO SVILUPPO DELLE AREE GEOTERMICHE IT (Radicondoli) participant 105˙750.00

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 Project objective

Future energy systems will face serious operational challenges with system reliability due to fluctuations caused by progressive integration of solar and wind power. Reliable and sustainable energy sources that can be utilized in large parts of Europe and that are able to balance these fluctuations are needed. Geothermal energy has the potential to become an excellent source for both base and flexible energy demands, providing much lower environmental footprint than both fossil and biomass fuels, as well as much less risks and societal resistance than nuclear power.

There are however some techno-economic challenges which needs to be addressed to facilitate highly flexible operation of geothermal power plants. In GeoSmart, we propose to combine thermal energy storages with flexible ORC solutions to provide a highly flexible operational capability of a geothermal installation. During periods with low demand, energy will be stored in the storage to be released at a later stage when the demand is higher. As this approach does not influence the flow condition at the wellhead, critical infrastructures will be unaffected under variable energy generation. To improve efficiency, we also propose a hybrid cooling system for the ORC plant to prevent efficiency degradation due to seasonal variations. Efficiency will be further improved by larger power plant heat extraction enabled due to a scaling reduction system consisting of specially design retention tank, heat exchanger, and recombining with extracted gases. The scaling reduction system has the potential to almost double power production of many medium enthalpy geothermal plants. Overall, GeoSmart technologies will drastically reduce geothermal energy costs, making it cost competitive with its fossil fuel-based counterparts. To bring GeoSmart technology to TRL7/8, we will demonstrate it in a medium/high (Turkey) and low (Belgium) temperature fields to show its potential benefits and applicability in different settings.

 Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Advisory committee formally recruited and briefed Other 2020-04-17 19:04:55
Project Website Other 2020-04-17 19:04:55

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail:  detailed list of GeoSmart deliverables.

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